https://alenakoroleva.com alenakoroleva Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:56:55 +0000 https://alenakoroleva.com en https://alenakoroleva.com/Home Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:22:19 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/Home https://alenakoroleva.com/NEARSHORE Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:56:55 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/NEARSHORE <img width="2160" height="1080" width_o="2160" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33224263df4c5a590a14f6f8d58c8f18ef297947f3afa2913a17ff76ed9ee565/score-horizontal.jpg" data-mid="246575780" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33224263df4c5a590a14f6f8d58c8f18ef297947f3afa2913a17ff76ed9ee565/score-horizontal.jpg" /> Nearshore sound installation, 30 min., 2026 Nearshore is a multi-channel sound installation exploring the ever shifting boundary between Toronto/Mnjikaning/Tkarón:to and Lake Ontario/Niigaani-gichigami/Oniatarí:io. Blending environmental data and acoustic ecology, it approaches the shoreline as a dynamic zone of exchange and negotiation. I arrived in Toronto shortly before the beginning of the pandemic, and began tuning in to the place I now call home through listening and recording. Walking around the waterfront, I heard local birds and animals for the first time, and they sounded almost extraterrestrial to me. As I learned more about shoreline’s evolution, I began to notice traces of history embedded in the landscape. I live on land marked by layers of displacement and transformation—shaped by retreating glaciers, stolen from Indigenous peoples, extended outward by the city, borrowed from the lake and defended against its return. The waterfront we know today was a lakebed just over a century ago. From landmarks left by Lake Iroquois, a larger predecessor of Lake Ontario, to maps of colonial land expropriations and recent infill projects, to datasets projecting ice cover disappearance and land erosion, flood maps and “vertical allowances”—Nearshore is my attempt at tracing the shoreline’s continuous transformation. All sound materials were recorded around Toronto’s waterfront between 2020 and 2025 and then processed to create a layered composition, in which separate audio tracks are synchronized and designed to play simultaneously through four speakers and multiple open-back headphones. The tracks can be experienced independently or as complementary layers. A multilayered projection and translucent map booklet function as a non-linear visual score, while all sonic material is transcribed through captions to provide additional points of access. This work is an invitation to attune to the soundtrack of our evolving shoreline, an interface and a site of convergence and friction between many beings. Nearshore offers an audio map, reminding us that the boundary between city and lake is a temporary arrangement. <img width="3974" height="2803" width_o="3974" height_o="2803" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efae057c6314ba60a0b3a2ab910f58e0c3f9b071e7225929b97af618075818c1/IMG_3105.jpg" data-mid="247587601" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efae057c6314ba60a0b3a2ab910f58e0c3f9b071e7225929b97af618075818c1/IMG_3105.jpg" /> <img width="3770" height="2828" width_o="3770" height_o="2828" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a716dc192d991c30483de44add0c90e508dda1393bdb22374388845508a79459/IMG_3933.jpg" data-mid="247587602" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a716dc192d991c30483de44add0c90e508dda1393bdb22374388845508a79459/IMG_3933.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a46e43b23c6811683961c35cffaf1927c7bee408aefbc7c12795692f1b13cc1/IMG_3983.jpg" data-mid="247587607" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a46e43b23c6811683961c35cffaf1927c7bee408aefbc7c12795692f1b13cc1/IMG_3983.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26ca234cad947bbb1b199fa03dd8df4d723bd7af1be679bf5c78a44ad28e46e4/IMG_3971.jpg" data-mid="247587606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26ca234cad947bbb1b199fa03dd8df4d723bd7af1be679bf5c78a44ad28e46e4/IMG_3971.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b4e344c6a3438c8adbf0404f325ca961e96ac5a84828c00372ad33e26a8ffbb/IMG_3966.jpg" data-mid="247587605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b4e344c6a3438c8adbf0404f325ca961e96ac5a84828c00372ad33e26a8ffbb/IMG_3966.jpg" /> <img width="3587" height="2690" width_o="3587" height_o="2690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/41f3b040e8c08b3abeb526025051bc6c854cb3bb3c42182455b7c3bbad3cdc07/IMG_3936.jpg" data-mid="247587603" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/41f3b040e8c08b3abeb526025051bc6c854cb3bb3c42182455b7c3bbad3cdc07/IMG_3936.jpg" /> Arcadia Performance room, Toronto, April 18-19, 2026. Photos and videos by Mike Hoolboom, Lena Golubtsova, Coman Poon, Alëna Korolëva. Notes on audience experiences In both composition and presentation, I aim to normalize diverse forms of attention and perception. I am interested in creating conditions where multiple modes of listening are welcomed. In Nearshore I tried to give audiences options of how to engage with the work. Those who are tired or easily overwhelmed can settle into the slow-paced, room-filling soundscape at moderate volume. Listeners seeking more intense input can zoom into details of field recordings on the headphones while still hearing the speakers. Transcriptions serve more than Deaf or hard‑of‑hearing audiences: they provide structure for people who process verbally or want to learn more about sources of sound. Colorful spotlights in a dark room, video projections and a booklet of historical maps give anchors for restless eyes something to anchor on without forcing fixed focus. As someone whose attention and auditory processing is affected by multiple neurodevelopmental conditions, I prioritize experiences that offer choice and accommodation. And while we can’t meet every need, I want to demonstrate that different needs can coexist and that no single mode of perception is inherently more important than another. https://alenakoroleva.com/INVERTED-MOUNTAINS Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:09:04 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/INVERTED-MOUNTAINS Inverted Mountains Digital release, 14 min., 2025 The Borba region of Portugal, known for its rich marble deposits, is dotted with over 400 pit mines, all but 50 are abandoned. In 2018, a massive collapse in one of the largest quarries claimed five lives in a landslide. The history of mining is etched into the landscape, visible in the deep scars left by extraction. Over time, these wounds have been reclaimed by nature as non-human species adapt to the ruins, turning them into homes. Four years after the landslide, I found myself at the bottom of this quarry as the sun set. Above me, pigeons circled the lower levels, filling the air with the continuous whistle of wings, while starlings gathered near the mouth of the pit, 50 meters above. This colony of starlings had a few tunes they repeated again and again. The sounds reminded me of sirens and the beeping of excavation machinery from the nearby quarries. Masters of acoustic mimicry, the starlings took these simple melodies and created variations on the same notes, not just repeating but unfolding new songs, their own regional dialect. Recorded in marble quarries near Borba, Portugal, October 2022. Released March 4, 2025 on Biodiversità Records as a part of 14 Soundscapes compilation. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/026102fc56085164e336f238a546c31c466482e1a3236a9fa695a6cec5a797d4/IMG_1044.JPG" data-mid="227726325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/026102fc56085164e336f238a546c31c466482e1a3236a9fa695a6cec5a797d4/IMG_1044.JPG" /> photo by Alëna Korolëva 14 Soundscapes by Alëna Korolëva https://alenakoroleva.com/NIGHT-CREATURES-OF-THE-LITTLE-LAKES Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:16:19 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/NIGHT-CREATURES-OF-THE-LITTLE-LAKES Night Creatures of the Little Lakes from harkening critters compilation, CD + Digital Album, 2024 This composition is made from sounds recorded over four nights in June 2023 near Little Lakes on the Territory of the Anishnabek Nation also known as Huron County in Ontario, Canada. These lakes are located in a patch of old-growth forest which is currently under the threat of erasure by a gravel company.While the local community has worked diligently to protect the forest and its irreplaceable ecosystem, the gravel company hired “experts” to make an environmental assessment which uncovered no significant animal life and specifically noted that there were no amphibians in this area. You might believe this statement if you stop by for a moment during the day, but if you happen to be there after dark, your ears will tell you a different story.This composition features green frogs, American bullfrogs, coyotes, redwing blackbirds, black-capped chickadees, mourning doves, roosters, red squirrels, crickets, raccoons, rabbits, beavers, and a few unidentified species. Released September 20, 2024 on forms of minutiae as a part of harkening critters&nbsp; compilation. <img width="1200" height="820" width_o="1200" height_o="820" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08e2d1b47d4d95d0fe7e0682a4ca022274d7f3c1cf5228a55cc9466d9486c7ed/Night-Creatures-of-the-Little-Lakes.jpg" data-mid="219909628" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08e2d1b47d4d95d0fe7e0682a4ca022274d7f3c1cf5228a55cc9466d9486c7ed/Night-Creatures-of-the-Little-Lakes.jpg" /> photo by Alëna Korolëva Interview with Tobias Fischer: Animal Sounds and Interspecies CommunicationReviews of “harkening critters” compillation on Bandcamp, Pitchfork, a closer listen, and Field Notes Berlin <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0005ac3e525b29327b274fc13c3ee52ca33557aa743eef37495de70b6507420b/463984056_18043804880314972_999343186881009031_n-1.jpg" data-mid="223277127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0005ac3e525b29327b274fc13c3ee52ca33557aa743eef37495de70b6507420b/463984056_18043804880314972_999343186881009031_n-1.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f546a583df82b0db0184207b5cf465302877273f415d72248f8bce04b3767132/464066439_18043804901314972_1380453235096948475_n.jpg" data-mid="223277133" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f546a583df82b0db0184207b5cf465302877273f415d72248f8bce04b3767132/464066439_18043804901314972_1380453235096948475_n.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0970c59dc533db22e240ea729c2b63889c657fc36f9bc6b0c89788abea29e9c/463916706_18043804910314972_6248121237789706265_n.jpg" data-mid="223277126" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0970c59dc533db22e240ea729c2b63889c657fc36f9bc6b0c89788abea29e9c/463916706_18043804910314972_6248121237789706265_n.jpg" /> <img width="1416" height="1416" width_o="1416" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94d9be4a1774bd6846ff2a7b1b7b3ceafc6d9a5e996f45277dad8400f0ab9f09/463336938_18043804919314972_2707821690763219006_n.jpg" data-mid="223277124" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94d9be4a1774bd6846ff2a7b1b7b3ceafc6d9a5e996f45277dad8400f0ab9f09/463336938_18043804919314972_2707821690763219006_n.jpg" /> <img width="1416" height="1416" width_o="1416" height_o="1416" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7cb7bdb75a2698386b6e2705d6fbb38990f98c6714102a8d05d50d3de82106a/464064989_18043804940314972_3753373879003788029_n.jpg" data-mid="223277131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7cb7bdb75a2698386b6e2705d6fbb38990f98c6714102a8d05d50d3de82106a/464064989_18043804940314972_3753373879003788029_n.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1440" width_o="1440" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b519cfee0d4dfd83234ccbf6a8867791c1d44c1fb4963a33e6e809c6170fabd/464000208_18043804949314972_209564037400780300_n.jpg" data-mid="223277129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b519cfee0d4dfd83234ccbf6a8867791c1d44c1fb4963a33e6e809c6170fabd/464000208_18043804949314972_209564037400780300_n.jpg" /> harkening critters by alëna korolëva https://alenakoroleva.com/PREMONITIONS Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:39:45 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/PREMONITIONS Premonitions Cassette + Digital Album, 2024 Whenever I go, I can't help but notice signs of a looming change. I eavesdrop on conversations of creatures big and small, and like me, they seem uneasy and uncertain about what's to come. Something is in the air, dark clouds gather, winds are shifting course. Amidst the confusion and restlessness, the voices of non-human and human worlds blend in a worrisome symphony. This piece is an ode to anticipation, to the beauty of different forms of life on the brink of the sixth mass extinction. Joining in the chorus are the American toad, northern winds, an old kettle, Mr. Cat, tawny owl, crickets, domestic chickens and pigs, trumpeter swans, honey bees, truck horns, cormorants, seagulls and other elements and critters. Released on March 20, 2024 on forms of minutiae&nbsp;C30 — limited edition of 60duration: 28’56’’ — piece repeats on both sidesrecorded, photographed, and composed by alëna korolëvatrumpet improvisation by chayka chekhovmastered by mathieu bonnafoustape production by headless duplicated tapespublished by forms of minutiae — fom10 — 2024 <img width="1772" height="1772" width_o="1772" height_o="1772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f62f2335cb2c4b26a7c6d13617b81459a34af6db32480f49a1cb00701295938a/fom10-cover.jpg" data-mid="207360523" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f62f2335cb2c4b26a7c6d13617b81459a34af6db32480f49a1cb00701295938a/fom10-cover.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c45cae1ffdaa1fe0ee717d63b13f5030e58e16bab2b2f295945090eefc523ef6/fom10---merch-pics-6.jpg" data-mid="207360513" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c45cae1ffdaa1fe0ee717d63b13f5030e58e16bab2b2f295945090eefc523ef6/fom10---merch-pics-6.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06c2bbd80dede936f69953bb265a88d895f7a66dd290057a82b85b0413a20851/fom10---merch-pics-1.jpg" data-mid="207360510" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06c2bbd80dede936f69953bb265a88d895f7a66dd290057a82b85b0413a20851/fom10---merch-pics-1.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c257b6da4e187ef9858e9d2e8ec5a6f33a111464626831c7c98d467afa5ffb72/fom10---merch-pics-5.jpg" data-mid="207360512" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c257b6da4e187ef9858e9d2e8ec5a6f33a111464626831c7c98d467afa5ffb72/fom10---merch-pics-5.jpg" /> <img width="4608" height="3456" width_o="4608" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2717cc9d71ac7e1884d080a53dcfdcf23096062ca06e8c5674a1909666b185af/fom10---merch-pics-4.jpg" data-mid="207360511" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2717cc9d71ac7e1884d080a53dcfdcf23096062ca06e8c5674a1909666b185af/fom10---merch-pics-4.jpg" /> &nbsp; Kristoffer Cornils, field notes | Contemporary Music in Berlin: Sound artist Alëna Korolëva created premonitions↗, released on the Berlin label forms of minutiae, as a commissioned work for the Radiophrenia↗ platform, bringing North American flora and fauna into dialogue with Chayka Chekhov on trumpet. What may read like a fairly conventional soundscape work on paper sounds decidedly composed from the very first second: Korolëva uses the rumbling of the wind as a basic rhythmic framework and frog choirs like shimmering organ notes, employing the cooing of birds as a canon and counterpointing it with undefined rumblings. Like a carefree DJ, she fades from one contrast to the next, allowing Chekhov's playing, which only appears late in the mix, to emerge from the rippling water and disappear again as quickly as it came. An absolutely remarkable work that ignores all conventions of soundscaping with verve. Bravo! pablo diserens: Something is afoot, the Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator, Alëna Korolëva tells us in her new soundscape composition “premonitions”. American toads and water beetles set things in motion before the long-form piece journeys through a multitude of field recordings and non-human voices in a quasi-cinematographic fashion. Korolëva layers and manipulates sounds from the real into a sonic chimaera which mutates concrete ambiances into vaporous surrealities through the modes of collage. A storm blankets the soundscape, things grow quieter. Distant parallels with Luc Ferrari’s "musique anecdotique" come to mind, yet here the piece materializes in an acoustic docu-fiction of some sort, that takes the form of a waking dream. Various scenes, ranging from the mundane to the uncanny, unfold in eardrums exposing an underlying sense of earthly melancholy. A weight lurks throughout while winds, pigs, chickens, and mechanical apparatus weave into a strange agitated tapestry. A kettle whistles, a cat meows – Korolëva sprinkles the gloom with touches of humor and audible senses of home. Trumpeter swans are joined by a trumpeter human; Chayka Chekhov responds to the avian songs in a interspecies dialogue – echoing Jim Nollman’s “Playing Music With Animals”. Environments cascade into a finale droned out by truck horns. Their ringings and animal cries swell in a somber abstraction bearing the weight of a presentiment. “What does the future hold?” we ask ourselves throughout the album as we dissolve in imbrications of positionings, emanating from one another like stacking dolls. Poly-layered, “premonitions” engages in play, in negotiation with the disparate spaces and voices of a troubled world as if it created harmonious discord to decipher the ominous clouds gathering in the horizon.Richard Allen, A Closer Listen:Storm clouds are gathering on the cover of Alëna Korolëva‘s premonitions. The beach lies empty; even the crabs and gulls have sought shelter. But this is no normal storm; the artist is having premonitions of a larger storm, an ecological-societal-spiritual disaster looming and encroaching fast. The signs are widely available: disappearing insects and birds, melting icecaps, weather gone wild. Korolëva imagines all of nature chattering, creating a clamor, audibly agitated, unsure of what to do, where to move, or whether or not any safe spaces remain. This is her “worrisome symphony.” Mass extinction is a serious topic; one might argue that nothing is more frightening. And so, Korolëva splices humor into her chapter book collage, and Mr. Cat almost steals the show. After all, while the world is ending, fewer people are paying attention to the delicious birds and fish. But before this happens, American toads and water beetles make mating noises over a bed of thunder. The chorus grows louder; the thunderclouds draw nearer. The winds begin to howl. A gate twists on its hinges, in need of oil. The world is a rusty hinge, while nobody has a can. Enter Mr. Cat. Mr. Cat would like some food, and lo! Food is provided. A chorus of farm animal enters the sonic frame. So many domesticated chickens! So much delicious meat! But soon Old McDonald’s Farm becomes Animal Farm. The animals are trapped, slated for slaughter. As the crickets hum; the dogs howl at the moon. A tawny owl considers its next prey. Where are the human protectors? They too are trapped; they too are burning; they are creating the flames. The watery portion seems a respite: a break at the trough, the river, the watering hole. In this segment, trumpeter swans provoke a human response: a wild trumpet improvisation by Chayka Chekhov, akin to David Rothenberg’s Nightingales in Berlin. But when swarms of bees approach, reminiscent of plagues of locusts and “The Hellstrom Chronicle,” all trumpeting ceases. The bees then give way to a human swarm of truck horns: perhaps traffic, perhaps protest, an ineffective barrage that screams its frustration into the cosmos and hears nothing back. Scavenger birds circle and descend, cawing and fighting over humanity’s last scraps. Does it need to end this way? A premonition is a strong feeling that something is about to happen, usually a Very Bad Something. But it is not precognition. Street prophets scrawl “The End Is Near!” on cardboard signs and urge readers to repent. Korolëva’s vision is an aural warning of what lies ahead if humanity fails to correct its current course.Top Ten Field Recording &amp; Soundscape of 2024, selection by A Closer Listen premonitions by alëna korolëva https://alenakoroleva.com/MARBLE-ROUTE-1 Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:29:51 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/MARBLE-ROUTE-1 Marble Routedigital release, 57 min., 2023 In October 2022 I stayed for a month at the Obras art residency, located in the Evora district in south-central Portugal. The landscape in this area was transformed by industrial mining over the last century. There are hundreds of marble quarries, most abandoned for over fifty years. The old railway which connected the area with ports of Lisbon permanently ceased operations in 1990. Rota do Mármore or Marble Route became history, but the towns and cities connected by it still shine with marble sidewalks and facades. Wildlife affected by mining and urbanisation has adapted to the new normal. Ponds grew out of the bottom of mining pits, creating environments for frogs and snakes. Tawny owls which rely on sound for hunting, mating and claiming their territory, have lost much of their habitat to the ubiquitous noise pollution. They are on the move, busily adapting. Starlings, the great imitator of the bird kingdoms, turned the walls of abandoned quarries into nests and gathering places, and changed their songs to reflect the landscape. Meanwhile, in Lisbon, at the other end of the Marble Route, starlings sing in a different dialect, their calls strive to cut through the roar of airplanes and voices of tourists. <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/33096b18bcd170c038dc4c09aff71113a4b36239c3b6e6c243c595673228f6c9/IMG_1014.JPG" data-mid="219911353" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/33096b18bcd170c038dc4c09aff71113a4b36239c3b6e6c243c595673228f6c9/IMG_1014.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29dfab2b08da707a15db9063dc604c3afd94f9e2e8509cf990a638bfc95375de/IMG_1529.JPG" data-mid="219911355" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29dfab2b08da707a15db9063dc604c3afd94f9e2e8509cf990a638bfc95375de/IMG_1529.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91139ec688ed8400768aa249879bcafe1d52adab1c38047448d3be22ef14492d/IMG_0848.JPG" data-mid="219911350" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91139ec688ed8400768aa249879bcafe1d52adab1c38047448d3be22ef14492d/IMG_0848.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/761e8fc49f7e7b35dfec78d5b0641f6f314fddb07b991f0f2e2be83aa1afe1a1/IMG_1212.JPG" data-mid="219911551" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/761e8fc49f7e7b35dfec78d5b0641f6f314fddb07b991f0f2e2be83aa1afe1a1/IMG_1212.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/810eb494e13edbd2227630bebf67b512d1d335ce0407105c397afbf4d3afb698/IMG_1762.JPG" data-mid="219911357" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/810eb494e13edbd2227630bebf67b512d1d335ce0407105c397afbf4d3afb698/IMG_1762.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49f4df761d051f3fa5258ff5c44e4e99a1e93970d4567eb8024fd5c694910d58/IMG_1783.JPG" data-mid="219911359" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49f4df761d051f3fa5258ff5c44e4e99a1e93970d4567eb8024fd5c694910d58/IMG_1783.JPG" /> 00:00 - 01:44 Starlings gathering at sunset in Alfama, Lisbon01:29 - 04:09 Train arrives at the station, rain on umbrella and roof shingles, Belem, Lisbon03:56 - 05:26 Football and boxing practice, park Estrela, Lisbon05:17 - 06:30 Recycling pick up at Principe Real garden, Lisbon06:22 - 08:11 Construction at Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon07:59 - 10:56 Riding old streetcar #15, Lisbon10:54 - 13:07 Breakfast at Apolo XI, family run cafe in Santos, Lisbon12:58 - 14:42 Skate, suitcase, car, truck, streetcar screetch and going up the hill, Lisbon14:30 - 16:54 Tejo Power Station, Lisbon16:43 - 18:46 Ferry Terminal Cais do Sodré, Lisbon18:33 - 20:36 River Tejo waterfront, Lisbon20:24 - 21:37 Catfish making bubbles, pond of Gulbenkian Garden, Lisbon21:24 - 23:21 Birds at the park of Necessidades (Roosters, Spotless Starling, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Graylag Goose, Mallard), Lisbon23:05 - 25:35 Under the April 25th bridge, Lisbon; bees surrounding a flowering bush, Obras residency25:03 - 28:45 Tawny owl, crickets, before sunrise; hydrophone recording in irrigation pond, unknown critters, Obras residency28:33 - 31:29 Sheep pasture near Obras residency31:26 - 31:55 Cat Frida meows in hallway, Obras residency31:43 - 32:40 Moving marble pieces on a metal cart, Obras residency32:16 - 35:42 Rain on wooden oak, cork trees, bushes, sound trap: shelter for the mics made of bark, branches and metal cans, near Obras residency34:58 - 37:58 Ravens fly by, wind in leafy trees and palm trees, bed sheets flapping on the drying line, Obras residency37:28 - 41:23 Sunset near dry river bed, birds (Eurasian Blackbird, European Robin, Common Chaffinch), rabbits run through bushes, near Obras residency41:06 - 44:36 Piglets at the free run pig farm, near Obras residency44:21 - 45:53 Swimming in the pool, Obras residency45:47 - 49:30 Rossio Square, saturday market, Estremoz49:19 - 51:19 Rossio Square, workers hammer marble tiles in the sidewalk, Estremoz50:47 - 57:00 Starlings and pigeons gather at the sunset in the marble quarry; voice improvisation of Eki Shola recorded in the marble quarry, near Borba Made with support of Canada Council for the Arts <img width="1201" height="220" width_o="1201" height_o="220" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/652fd58452885f1ae7c51fe9bd59b63795a746ab70e6d7b7669189084f66c1c0/CCA_RGB_black_e.png" data-mid="219910853" border="0" data-scale="53" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/652fd58452885f1ae7c51fe9bd59b63795a746ab70e6d7b7669189084f66c1c0/CCA_RGB_black_e.png" /> &nbsp; Marble Route by Alëna Korolëva https://alenakoroleva.com/FRACTURE-RESISTANCE Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:17:58 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/FRACTURE-RESISTANCE Fracture Resistance CD + Digital Album, 2023 This composition combines recordings made at different times of the year on Lake Ontario in order to track and trace the shifting climate. Sounds of thinning ice emerge from cracks spreading in a curving pattern. Winter guests from the Arctic arrive: long-tailed ducks call to each other. The piercing sounds of military jets provide a stark contrast to an ecosystem of co-operation and accommodation. Skipping stones turn the lake into a vibrating plate. Each impact creates a flexural/bending wave, radiating sound into the air, the short waves/high frequencies arriving first. These waves track the ice’s vanishing act, a harbinger of both the new season, and the seasons already lost, as climate shifts are written in the math of disappearance.Released in February 2023 as a part of framework:seasonal ::: issue #12 album by&nbsp;framework editions (Estonia). CD cover photo by Alëna Korolëva, design by Vahram Muradyan. <img width="4592" height="3448" width_o="4592" height_o="3448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a3bbd9a3f205d66cc41856accfee0855209800fa847309130ad4af409b26f75/ice3.jpg" data-mid="191145708" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a3bbd9a3f205d66cc41856accfee0855209800fa847309130ad4af409b26f75/ice3.jpg" /> framework:seasonal ::: issue #12 ::: winter 2023 by various artists https://alenakoroleva.com/ACCIDENTAL-WILDERNESS-1 Fri, 19 Aug 2022 17:47:35 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/ACCIDENTAL-WILDERNESS-1 Accidental Wilderness CD + Digital Album, 2022 This album of field recording-based compositions grew from listening to the sounds of the ever-changing boundary between the city of Toronto and Lake Ontario. The waterfront is a transition zone where sounds of animals, plants, people, machines and water meet and overlap.The album’s title refers to the transformation of a wasteland into new natural habitats. This happened in Toronto as wildlife reclaimed islands of construction garbage which had been dumped into the lake. Over the years the site became a lush green park, a home and meeting place for many different species. CD released on Ryoanji Records (Norwich, UK) on August 15, 2022. CD cover artwork by Elsa Cha. <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03e23a8a74e60a4685bf7cd2d50ab3eac5fe8f6b0db02e176da81d5dc1d7e85b/accidental.jpg" data-mid="150834619" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03e23a8a74e60a4685bf7cd2d50ab3eac5fe8f6b0db02e176da81d5dc1d7e85b/accidental.jpg" /> <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00c83553ab4aae8c9bb4a1a0dd0695821c4588e1cc4797ed4bde2fdb5f65157a/Geese.jpg" data-mid="150834622" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00c83553ab4aae8c9bb4a1a0dd0695821c4588e1cc4797ed4bde2fdb5f65157a/Geese.jpg" /> <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81492f436801eb4fbc7192e8c98242aee46a2402c144c4aded1074fc985f38ca/cinesphere.jpg" data-mid="150834620" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81492f436801eb4fbc7192e8c98242aee46a2402c144c4aded1074fc985f38ca/cinesphere.jpg" /> <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b958547c63693af6e0bf0cc0a1b4e0df7e8f07764f70663e55eede66243b265e/fog-OP.jpg" data-mid="150834621" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b958547c63693af6e0bf0cc0a1b4e0df7e8f07764f70663e55eede66243b265e/fog-OP.jpg" /> <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b2a5aa70e2f18da35a4f0e6068e9c1ea90c3326a036afe2017bef03220d1b5a/seagull.jpg" data-mid="150834626" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b2a5aa70e2f18da35a4f0e6068e9c1ea90c3326a036afe2017bef03220d1b5a/seagull.jpg" /> <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/882316d2bfcc71faeceb3c64bd35accd0bb4a111b68a3238695e034ecf0190c4/island-path.jpg" data-mid="150834623" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/882316d2bfcc71faeceb3c64bd35accd0bb4a111b68a3238695e034ecf0190c4/island-path.jpg" /> <img width="3306" height="4403" width_o="3306" height_o="4403" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/423443b3fce9d5761cf7aaf1bcff9da5cbad10f166184737203e5e84076f5b46/recording-ice.jpg" data-mid="150834624" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/423443b3fce9d5761cf7aaf1bcff9da5cbad10f166184737203e5e84076f5b46/recording-ice.jpg" /> <img width="3003" height="4000" width_o="3003" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76d14270a300820a6cae8c81846a2ffe0d16164508a584285fb06f27ceec6a30/reeds.jpg" data-mid="150834625" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76d14270a300820a6cae8c81846a2ffe0d16164508a584285fb06f27ceec6a30/reeds.jpg" /> The coastline of Lake Ontario is forever changing because of climate change and colonial interventions. Toronto city builders at the beginning of the 20th century treated the lake as a dumping ground for factories, with devastating effects for wetlands and wildlife. Later, landfill was used to extend the city into the lake. Today I’m living on land that used to be under water just a hundred years ago. During another industrial construction boom, builders dumped mountains of concrete and sand into the lake in order to create a barrier against waves and rising tides. No one could have expected that in a few years wildlife would take over this unwanted territory. The Leslie Street Spit became a habitat for local plants, birds and animals. This phenomenon is known as “accidental wilderness,” similar transformations took place on atomic test sites. There is nothing accidental in wilderness of course, if anything this expanding city of concrete and glass seems more accidental from a long-term perspective. Thousands of years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the territory of today’s downtown Toronto was at the bottom of Lake Iroquois, a bigger proto-version of Lake Ontario. The escarpment left behind by the receded lake constitutes a distinctive landscape of the city. A short ferry ride from the lakeshore lies a chain of fifteen small islands currently known as “the Toronto Islands.” For thousands of years prior to European colonization, this group of islands and sandbars was used for ceremonial gatherings and as a place of healing by Indigenous peoples, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, who named it Mnisiing. The islands remain a special place where urban domination doesn’t quite hold sway, allowing a temporary balance between people and wildlife. And while it is considered to be the largest urban car-free community in North America and an environmentally significant area, one of the islands is occupied by an international airport, the source of massive air and noise pollution. There are many kinds of creatures living on the waterfront of Toronto, it is a densely populated place with much more biodiversity than surrounding areas. This transition zone between the city and wildlife is a complex and fluid boundary, hosting not only varieties of native species but also acting as an international hub for migratory birds. The city borders look concrete but they are a temporary arrangement, and colonial domination can be not only stopped but reversed. Borrowed/stolen land one day can be taken back. Will the city be consumed by the rising water levels or will the lake recede due to droughts? There is no way to predict the future, but new condo towers and “revitalisation” projects just a few steps from a colossal body of water seem the result of wishful thinking. <img width="1796" height="1797" width_o="1796" height_o="1797" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de61dae25ce82c6ceb48aa7b7542e21991cb94021f848b15f09b2c0f9ac222ef/please.jpg" data-mid="150834039" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de61dae25ce82c6ceb48aa7b7542e21991cb94021f848b15f09b2c0f9ac222ef/please.jpg" /> <img width="590" height="448" width_o="590" height_o="448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/853fe1138256fd28103fbaa45c1a8fa7dd12d479a7e9886b0f75ebdf5bf2ff0b/2011728-waterfront-graphic-s1465_fl0059_id0006.jpg" data-mid="150834040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/590/i/853fe1138256fd28103fbaa45c1a8fa7dd12d479a7e9886b0f75ebdf5bf2ff0b/2011728-waterfront-graphic-s1465_fl0059_id0006.jpg" /> Accidental Wilderness by Alëna Korolëva https://alenakoroleva.com/RANDOM-CITY Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:22:23 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/RANDOM-CITY <img width="3000" height="2127" width_o="3000" height_o="2127" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db9a9af3a3242657f048045e690e4e5ad37c98a16c11facb8b283844672f80e2/Random-City.jpg" data-mid="116825307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db9a9af3a3242657f048045e690e4e5ad37c98a16c11facb8b283844672f80e2/Random-City.jpg" /> Random City Radio work, 45 min., 2021 What a relief to arrive at last in this new city. Your feet are restless, they take you across bridges and underneath construction sites, under the river even, where you embrace views that make you feel like you have ears all over your new body.A collective portrait of a city inspired by Italo Calvino.text, voice and additional recordings by Mike Hoolboom - mikehoolboom.com Broadcast on {openradio} as a part of the&nbsp;Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2021 #BURN program Broadcast as a framework:afield program. Broadcast on&nbsp;KXCI 91.3FM Tucson AZ as a part of&nbsp;Elysian Fields program. Presented within a framework of the international conference and transdiciplinary festival Field Sound Recordings: Music, Speech, Landscape, October 5–15, 2021, Russia at&nbsp;St. Petersburg Sound Museum Ground Solyanka Gallery, Moscow Broadcast on Radiofrenia Glasgow, a festival of sound and transmission arts. 7 February 2022 https://alenakoroleva.com/SHADOWS-OF-MTATSMINDA Mon, 23 Aug 2021 19:25:44 +0000 alenakoroleva https://alenakoroleva.com/SHADOWS-OF-MTATSMINDA Shadows of Mtatsminda Cassette + Digital Album, 2020Mtatsminda can be translated from Georgian as "Holy Mountain." The downtown of Tbilisi is situated in the shadow of this mountain, which is often covered in fog.Released December 4, 2020 on Szara Reneta label (Bustryk, Poland). Sounds recorded in 2018-2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia.Field recording-based compositions, photos and cover design by Alëna Korolëva. <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/798a04304fe761725b10b8f6091a8901185b7454ca511f90e26c4a717d20cb62/0022607136_10.jpg" data-mid="117161760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/798a04304fe761725b10b8f6091a8901185b7454ca511f90e26c4a717d20cb62/0022607136_10.jpg" /> <img width="2079" height="1276" width_o="2079" height_o="1276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/897fde7de8d65828d0c091ea1eb0a7f5a751137b43db87a08f2479ebc323a1a7/som_cover.jpg" data-mid="117545109" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/897fde7de8d65828d0c091ea1eb0a7f5a751137b43db87a08f2479ebc323a1a7/som_cover.jpg" /> <img width="3404" height="2214" width_o="3404" height_o="2214" 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included in programs ofCashmere Radio as a part of Eastern Daze #31 Szara Reneta label special Polish Radio Kapitał -&nbsp;Tapes Matter: Szara Reneta Field Recordings Mix Framework Radio - framework: afield&nbsp;#741A Closer Listen - Abby Lee Tee’s mix ‘young frogs &amp; golden lakes’ CIUT.FM, Toronto - Electric Sense Community Radio Tbilisi / Common Waves as a part of Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, October 2020. f="https://alenakoroleva.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-of-mtatsminda">Shadows of Mtatsminda by Alëna Korolëva